David H. Montgomery

“ The tobacco plant did not grow very well there, but the potato did; and after a time thousands of farmers began to raise that vegetable, not only in Ireland, but in England too. As far back as that time—or more than three hundred years ago—America was beginning to feed the people of the Old World.
34. The Virginia settlement destroyed.— Sir Walter spent immense sums of money on his settlement in Virginia, but it did not succeed. One of the settlers, named Dare, had a daughter born there. He named her Virginia Dare. She was the first English child born in America. ”

“ What did she do for Walter Raleigh? What did Sir Walter then do? What American plants did the emigrants send him? What did he do with those plants? What happened to the Virginia settlement? What is said of the last days of Sir Walter Raleigh? Did Sir Walter's attempt to settle Virginia do any good?
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Footnotes 1 Venison (ven′i-zon or ven′zon) : deer meat.
2 Emigrants: persons who leave one country to go and settle in another. Thousands of emigrants from Europe now land in this country every month. ”